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Re: Cygwin Remote: Want to implement a Citrix Metaframe alternative
- From: "Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 20:28:52 -0400
- Subject: Re: Cygwin Remote: Want to implement a Citrix Metaframe alternative
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Thanks.
I have a small "bag of tricks" like this. One of these days I'll get around
to documenting them. If/when I do so I'll be sure to post a URL to the ML.
By the way, I discovered a caveat in the solution I posted at the root of
this thread. XWin starts up before xinit launches ssh, causing the root
window to obscure the command-line so that you can't see it prompt for a
password. I think a reasonable fix would be to put the ssh command "inside"
an xterm in the .xinitrc file as follows:
xterm -title "ssh on `hostname`" \
-e ssh -X remoteusername@remotehostname pathtoremotescript
From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>
Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin Remote: Want to implement a Citrix Metaframe
alternative
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 16:43:48 -0400
Thomas,
Yes, that is an excellent answer and it describes an elegant solution that
99% of people would not be able to come up with on their own. I am
flagging it for inclusion into the User's Guide. Of course, that doesn't
mean it will be in the User's Guide next week, or even next month, but it
will eventually get there.
Harold
[snip]
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